The last two female fatalities have been identified in the catastrophic Los Angeles collision that killed six people, including a woman and her unborn child, when an ICU nurse ran a red light.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Lynette Noble, 38, and Nathesia Lewis, 42, were recognized as victims by their family and acquaintances.
Nicole L. Linton, 37, rammed her Mercedes straight into traffic roughly ten miles south-west of downtown Los Angeles on August 4. She was traveling at 90 mph when she slashed one of the victims’ automobiles in two, launching the infant in his car seat into the air.
According to family relatives, Noble and Lewis were travelling together when their automobile exploded into flames. Due to extreme injuries, the remains of the two were not immediately recognized.
Personal possessions and identification linking to Noble were recovered in the burning automobile, according to relatives and friends, while the identity of the corpses is awaiting verification from the county coroner.
A pregnant lady, her boyfriend, the woman’s one-year-old son, and her unborn child were among the other casualties. Nea Irby was with Noble and Lewis on the day they were slain. Noble’s close buddy Irby was driving separately from the two. She drove right through the crossroads where the collision occurred. When she returned, she observed the ensuing brawl.
‘I simply assumed it was a horrible accident,’ Irby said.
‘If I had known it was Lynette, I would have turned around and stayed right there until they put out the fire.’ It has bothered me. I just have this visual in my brain of this vehicle on fire, and finding out it was her is difficult.’
Nathesia’s sister, Krystal Lewis, told the Times during a memorial a few miles from the disaster that her sister left behind seven children.
At the vigil, Krystal stated, ‘She loved unconditionally.’ ‘It’s heartbreaking. Everyone is upset since it was so unexpected. I didn’t think it was somebody I knew until I watched the accident.’ Clarence Hamlin, Nathesia’s boyfriend, described her as “kind and compassionate.” On the façade of her sister’s beauty parlor, Hamlin created a painting of his late fiancée.
‘Everyone knows she’d do anything for a stranger or a member of the community,’ Hamlin added. ‘Perhaps she was like this since her mother died when she was little.’
Hamlin had no idea he’d lost his girlfriend in the enormous flames on the day of the terrible collision. After she didn’t return home that night, he raced to contact her and her companions, but was left with unanswered questions.
It wasn’t until he realized Nathesia was no longer alive that the news broke him. He remembers walking at night and thinking he saw her, motivating him to dash towards her. As he approached closer, he realized it was all a trick of the light. Nicole Linton, an ICU nurse from Texas who works in Los Angeles, was charged with six charges of murder on August 8 and faces up to 90 years in jail if convicted.
During a news conference on Monday, LA County DA George Gascón said that there was no proof Linton was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the collision.
She was discharged from the hospital on Sunday and is currently being kept at the Century Regional Detention Center in Lynwood, California, where she was previously imprisoned on a $9 million bail.
According to Gascón, Linton was going at least 90 mph when she went past a red light and collided with crossing cars at the busy junction of La Brea and Slauson Avenues.
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Following the horrific collision, Asherey Ryan, 23, and her one-year-old kid Alonzo Luchiano Quintero, as well as her unborn baby boy, were confirmed dead at the site.
According to individuals close to the family, the unborn child’s father, Reynold Lester, was also killed in the incident as the automobile broke in two instantly on contact.
Linton crashed into the automobile Asherey, Reynold, and young Alonzo were driving in on their way to a doctor’s appointment for a pregnancy check-up.
‘In the flash of an eye, a young family was decimated,’ Gascón said Monday.
‘The relatives and friends of those slain and wounded have suffered irreparable devastation.’
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‘It’s a huge loss not just for their families, but for our whole community, who learnt of this horrific tragedy after seeing the now-viral footage of the collision.’
Linton, who is now an ICU nurse, used to work in a strip joint and had a habit of threatening suicide after terrible breakups. After her partner died in 2017, she suffered from mental illness.
She had intended to marry Olympic silver medallist Germaine Mason before he was murdered in a motorbike accident, DailyMail.com has discovered.
‘When I saw what occurred in LA, the first thing that sprang to mind was that she had clashed with her boyfriend, was inebriated, and was attempting suicide,’ revealed a person close to Linton.
‘She had previously threatened to do it. I was hoping she’d really done it this time.’
Her lawyers claim she has a “deep history” of mental illness.